Tag: gifs
File this one under “things I’m glad exist even though I’ll never actually use them myself.” Monkey Light, currently funding on Kickstarter, is a series of LED lights that attach to your bike’s wheels, displaying full-color animations when you ride between 10 and 40 miles per hour. Take a look below: Not exactly sure what […]
At the Webby Awards last night, Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF, used his lifetime achievement award acceptance speech to inform the public that his most famous invention is “pronounced JIF, not GIF.” He did so using a GIF, naturally. Wilhite is wrong. GIFs are GIFs, not JIFs, because “Graphics Interchange Format” starts with a hard […]
This recent series of GIFs by artist Anthony Antonellis is pretty perfect. See flattened collages of melting flesh quivering inside almost-familiar shapes of hand-held devices. (Hand-held “hands”?) It’s lightly reminiscent of old body-horror Cronenberg (or new Cronenberg Jr.!) but clean and crisp. Ahhh. […]
Finding that perfect little looping animation of dogs breaking up a cat fight, Elmo jumping, or Guy Fieri lapping up Pellegrino is about to get much easier: Today, Google announced a new image search feature that will allow you to filter your results to receive GIFs. A lucky few (not me) users have GIF search already, but the […]
Artist Evan Roth has love for the GIF. Here’s his set of ten new One Gif Compositions, all created from single vintage GIF from the Heather’s Animations archive, chronicling early GIFs from as far back as 1999. You can see A Tribute To Heather in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, through June 30. They’re so pretty. […]
There’s something incredibly appealing about subtle, repetitive, perpetual motion seemingly absent of the human hand, whether it’s a massive mobile by Alexander Calder, a creepy portrait GIF from the Beijing subway, or a porny/arty looping six-second subversion series of a new social media app. Artist Laurent Debraux, whose work was recently on view at the […]
Welcome to the next few hours of your day: Chris Shier created gifmelter, a bookmarklet that turns any GIF or static image into a pixelated, decomposing swirl. It’s grotesque and beautiful and mesmerizing and you should just take a look at it and stop reading this now. Paste the URL of your own GIF into […]
Chinese filmmaker Kit Chung has been experimenting with GIFs pulled from a video he made shooting portrait close-ups on Line 2, Beijing’s oldest running subway rail. The voyeuristic loops of subtle facial gestures are a little bit Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests meet Chris Marker’s Passengers. He’s been posting to his Tumblr which also reminds of […]
Edinburgh University scientist Dr. Ian Woodhouse hates deforestation. You like art. So how’s this… how’s your precious, precious art lookin’ now, with all the trees clear-cut? Ah-HA! Posted on his blog Forest Planet and ArtInfo, Woodhouse had the trees rather skillfully Photoshopped out of Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte (1884-86), John Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821) and Vincent van Gogh’s Olive Trees with […]
